On an essay I’m making…

…There's also a little deviation of the netiquette regarding the absence of tone cues, and that is with tone indicators or tone tags. These are little text cues, usually notated by a slash and an abbreviation of a tone (though some people use indiscernible numbers surrounded by brackets) used to notate a tone into the text. Some examples include "/s" (for sarcastic), "/j" (for joking), "/srs" (for serious) or "/gen" (for genuine), etc. Some tags, like "/s", "/j", or "/lh" [light-hearted] are potentially effective to ease communications. Some like "/ly" [lyrics], "/q" [quote], or "/ref" [reference] are dubious in terms of their relevance at making communication easier. And some tags like "/hj" [half-joking] and "/mj" [mostly-joking] are ambiguous, since it's not obvious what the tone really means to the text that's been given the tag. It doesn't help that most users of tone indicators are neurodivergent, so there are some differences in how people interpret the indicators, which is quite ironic since they're meant to ease communication of tones.